Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

torbay.gov.uk

Home - Torbay Council

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

798 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

torbay.gov.uk screenshot

About Website

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Your local authority delivering services to visitors and residents of Brixham, Paignton and Torquay.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Torbay.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 798 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

torbay.gov.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,330 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.552

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

torbay.gov.uk

798 ms

tc-styles-2012-desktop.css

269 ms

tc-styles-2012-mobile-v2.css

278 ms

general-homepage-2012.js

289 ms

footer-page-options.js

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Torbay.gov.uk, 9% (8 requests) were made to Ums.adtech.de and 5% (5 requests) were made to Image2.pubmatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (798 ms) belongs to the original domain Torbay.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 327.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

590.9 kB

After Optimization

263.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Torbay.gov.uk main page is 590.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 255.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 93.1 kB

  • Original 121.8 kB
  • After minification 119.2 kB
  • After compression 28.7 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 93.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 155.6 kB
  • After minification 130.4 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Torbay needs image optimization as it can save up to 25.3 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 161.2 kB

  • Original 255.6 kB
  • After minification 251.9 kB
  • After compression 94.4 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 161.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 44.3 kB
  • After compression 10.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Torbay.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (60%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Torbay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

torbay.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

torbay.gov.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

torbay.gov.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Torbay.gov.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Torbay.gov.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Torbay. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: